Correspondence from the human rights advisors to the Policing Board to the Chief Constable expressing concern re the proposed introduction of Tasers.

Notes for Guidance on Police Use of Attenuating Energy Projectile - AEP

Association of Chief Police Officers/ ACPO - The PSNI has refused to date to publish these guidelines | 16 May 2005

Managing conflict and responding to violence are core police functions. Police response is underpinned by Human Rights and in particular the obligation under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, to uphold the right to life. 1.2 This guidance is intended to inform the storage, carria...

The European Court of Human Rights found that the British Government had violated Article 2 of the ECHR (the right to life article) in a number of controversial lethal force cases in the North of Ireland.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg today gave judgment in favour of the families of eight men who were murdered by a Loyalist murder gang in the South Armagh area in the mid 1970’s. The cases were taken to Strasbourg following the failure of the British Government to properly investiga...

The Pat Finucane Centre (PFC) has called for an immediate independent judicial inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane following the latest revelations that RUC Special Branch perverted the course of justice in the wake of the 1989 murder. On May 1 2001 the UTV Insight programme carried an interview...